{"id":1540,"date":"2010-11-22T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2010-11-22T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T18:34:07","slug":"bookshelf-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1540","title":{"rendered":"Bookshelf Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, some <a href=\"http:\/\/jesriel.wordpress.com\">friends of mine<\/a> were featured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2010\/04\/the-subconscious-shelf-11.html\">New Yorker&#8217;s Book Bench<\/a> for their pre-marital alignment of wood-housed tomes.  So I figured it was time, now that I&#8217;ve actually organized them properly, for me to feature my own post-marital stack of reading:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/Bookish1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I guess I was surprised overall how few books I actually have, though it&#8217;s worth noting that this is a heck of a large bookcase.  Not really purchasing textbooks in college contributed to this, as well as long spates of library-based reading, which is starting back up again.  This will probably stabilize my shelves for the time being, so this&#8217;ll be what I&#8217;m looking at perhaps for the duration in Highland Park.  You can&#8217;t quite judge a person by their bookshelf, any more than a book by its cover, but both are perhaps more indicative than we give them credit for.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of a more clearly labeled analysis for those who are having a hard time parsing covers or recognizing precise volumes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/Bookish2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>No surprise to see Bradbury leading the pack, and many of the others are clearly favored.  Kafka and Salinger have few enough works all told that they don&#8217;t quite merit labeling, though veteran readers of the latter will at least recognize the rainbow-on-white spines of his slim pieces.  Which reminds me that I need to rebuy <i>Nine Stories<\/i> at some point.  Wow, that recollection makes me sad.  Anyway, I think Irving and Coelho suffer here a bit from being read during library phases, as does Huxley a bit despite his strong showing.  Whereas Card and Rowling might get disproportionate credit for the thickness of their works.  Hemingway also suffers from, if anything, a name that&#8217;s too long to make look okay on this graphic above.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just want to go read.  Maybe for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, some friends of mine were featured in the New Yorker&#8217;s Book Bench for their pre-marital alignment of wood-housed tomes. So I figured it was time, now that I&#8217;ve actually organized them properly, for me to feature my own post-marital stack of reading: I guess I was surprised overall how few books I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,12],"tags":[5,67,56],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-read-it-and-weep","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-read-it-and-weep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}